Dropping weight. Jones, Hatton and Tarver. Coincidence?

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please stop with the bs...hopkins was a lightheavy cutting weight for years...looked like a crackhead @ 160

If you can make the weight you can fight at that weightclass...

Baldomir was a middleweight in the ring when he fought Mayweather...if Baldomir had won that wouldn't be a valid excuse...

Plenty of guys go 15-20 pounds up in weight overnight...

[General Zod]

here is the hopkins quote from ring mag:

"If they knew what I had to go through all those years to stay at middleweight and rack up those 20 defenses, I'd get a blue ribbon for that. If they knew how disciplined I had to be through all those years, at 6'1" with a 36-inch waist, built like a wide receiver, the question should have been: How in the hell has Bernard been able to stay at 160?"

Thanks for posting this

[djtmal]

If you can make the weight you can fight at that weightclass...

Baldomir was a middleweight in the ring when he fought Mayweather...if Baldomir had won that wouldn't be a valid excuse...

Plenty of guys go 15-20 pounds up in weight overnight...

please man stop it...its on record that hopkins started out lightheavy/supermiddle...for him to reinvent himself as a dominant middleweight meant that he wasn't confident about being dominant against fighters more his size with equal talent...had baldomir beat floyd, it would have been a good big man beating a great little man, which isn't as bad as a great big man beating up on weak middleweights and blown up welterweights for years...

[odogg8121]

I wud say yes it did, but Hatton always goes up in weight between fights...I think he thought he cud bull rush Pac and get the win..RJJ yeah the weight with a lil age..Tarver, was he really that good before the weight lose...he only beat RJJ but he was knocked twice b4 he last fought Tarver so I think Tarver had a long lay off to go with the weight issue, I think wud wud lose to hopkins even if Tarver was in his prime

[djtmal]

If you can make the weight you can fight at that weightclass...

spoken like a true hopkins excuse maker...

[ИATAS]

please man stop it...its on record that hopkins started out lightheavy/supermiddle...for him to reinvent himself as a dominant middleweight meant that he wasn't confident about being dominant against fighters more his size with equal talent...had baldomir beat floyd, it would have been a good big man beating a great little man, which isn't as bad as a great big man beating up on weak middleweights and blown up welterweights for years...

so you're saying hopkins was weight drained for 15 years?? lol you guys are a bunch of morons, seriously.

[SplitSecond]

so you're saying hopkins was weight drained for 15 years?? lol you guys are a bunch of morons, seriously.

gamboa over juanma?
damn i cant wait for this fight

[gqjohnb]

Every1 knows jumping up and down in weight destroys boxers all i wanna know is when is it pacquiaos turn

I don't think pac is going back down before retirement. I think he's done with draining himself to make weight.

[gqjohnb]

please man stop it...its on record that hopkins started out lightheavy/supermiddle...for him to reinvent himself as a dominant middleweight meant that he wasn't confident about being dominant against fighters more his size with equal talent...had baldomir beat floyd, it would have been a good big man beating a great little man, which isn't as bad as a great big man beating up on weak middleweights and blown up welterweights for years...

Hopkins progression in weight is just like paul williams. Paul started at SMW for several fights and then came down to WW but I don't hear yall going in on williams threads and I think you should. Hopkins is still a great fighter though.

[djtmal]

so you're saying hopkins was weight drained for 15 years?? lol you guys are a bunch of morons, seriously.

no you f**king dumbass...HOPKINS is saying he drained weight for 15 years...we put up his f**king quote and everything...use your head for more than a f'ing hatrack...it doesn't pay to be that ignorant...